Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Boeing aims to increase Black employees by 20%, CEO says in memo
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co is seeking to increase Black U.S. employees throughout the company by 20% and mandate benchmarks for hiring people of color, Chief Executive Dave Calho...
Aug 28, 2020
Fed's targeting of higher inflation could backfire, paper suggests
(Reuters) - Targeting higher inflation, as the Federal Reserve suggested it would do in a revamp of its monetary policy strategy on Thursday, could end up slowing growth instead of boosting it unless ...
Aug 28, 2020
Yum China applies for Hong Kong debut amid U.S.-China tensions
(Reuters) - Yum China Holdings Inc filed an application for a secondary listing in Hong Kong on Friday, a rising trend among some Chinese firms to list closer to home in a bid to mitigate risks from e...
Aug 28, 2020
Five years on, France to try suspects in Charlie Hebdo killings
PARIS (Reuters) - Fourteen suspected accomplices to the French Islamist militants behind the 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris will go on trial nex...
Aug 28, 2020
Spanish police arrest pandemic-denier for inciting hatred
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday they had arrested a man near the northeastern city of Zaragoza, who believed the coronavirus pandemic to be a hoax, for inciting hatred and violence ac...
Aug 28, 2020
UK COVID-19 reproduction "R" rate steady at 0.9-1.1
LONDON (Reuters) - The reproduction "R" number of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom remains between 0.9 and 1.1, the government said on Friday, indicating that the rate of infection is most likely either...
Aug 28, 2020
Germany would be ready to sanction Russia over Navalny case: Maas
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany would be ready to impose diplomatic sanctions against Russia if it concludes that Russian state agencies were behind the poisoning of a critic of President Vladimir Putin, F...
Aug 28, 2020
Brits flock to Portugal's Algarve as quarantine rules lifted, airport struggles
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is sending border control reinforcements to an airport in the sunny Algarve as authorities struggle to cope with a surge in arrivals of British tourists ...
Aug 28, 2020
Thai activists scuffle with police officers
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Pro-democracy activists tussled with police in Bangkok on Friday when demonstrators gathered at a police station in a show of support for protest leaders. Scores of activists remov...
Aug 28, 2020
Danish spy agency shared information with U.S. intelligence: DR broadcaster
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's foreign intelligence unit has shared raw data from information cables with the U.S. National Security Agency, which could have given the NSA access to Danish citizens'...
Aug 28, 2020
